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The house and collection of Giuliano, Antonio and Francesco da Sangallo

08/2021 | 1421 | 163

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Röstel, Alexander (Röstel, Alexander )

Subjects

artists:

Sangallo, Antonio da, the elder, ca. 1455-1534 / Sangallo, Giuliano da / Sangallo, Francesco da / Piero di Cosimo / Botticelli, Sandro / Uccello, Paolo

buildings:

Casa Sangallo (Palazzo Ximenes-Panciatichi), Florence, Italy / Villa Medicea di Poggio a Caiano, Florence, Italy

patrons:

Medici, Lorenzo de', il Magnifico, 1449–1492

sources:

Vasari, Giorgio / Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552 / Filarete

sources:

Inventories

subjects:

Artists' houses / Collections, Private / Florentine art / Italian Renaissance architecture / Ancient sculpture / Reliefs / Paintings / Bronzes / Marbles / Medals / Maps / Architectural models / Busts / Crucifixes / Antiquities

subjects:

Models (representations) / Sculpture / Workshops (Organisations)

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Simonetta Vespucci as Cleopatra, by Piero di Cosimo. c.1480–1500. Tempera on panel, 57 by 42 cm. (Musée Condé, Chantilly).

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10. Ground plan of the house of the architect, from Filarete: Libro architettonico. c.1460–64. (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence).

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11. Note by Leonardo da Vinci (sixth line from bottom, inverted), from a page in the Codex Arundel, probably referring to a sculpture in the Casa Sangallo. c.1500–03. Pen and ink on paper, 20.5 by 29 cm. (British Library, London).

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12. Statue of a Roman consul excavated in Florence in 1529. (From V. Borghini: Discorsi, Florence 1584).

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13. Giuliano da Sangallo and Francesco Giamberti, by Piero di Cosimo. c.1480–90. Oil on panel, each panel 47.5 by 33.5 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

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14. Leonardo Buonafede, by Francesco da Sangallo. c.1545–50. Red chalk on paper, 32.2 by 26.1 cm. (British Museum, London).

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15. Building of a palace, by Piero di Cosimo. c.1480–90. Oil on panel, 77.4 by 197 cm. (John and Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota; Scala Archives).

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17. Taddeo di Gaddo, Gaddo di Zanobi and Agnolo di Taddeo Gaddi, attributed to the workshop of Fra Angelico. c.1425–30. Tempera on panel, 47 by 89 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).

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19. Virgin and Child with St John and an angel, by workshop of Sandro Botticelli. c.1490. Tempera on poplar, diameter of painting 84.5 cm. (National Gallery, London).

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2. Detail of the Pianta della Catena, by Lucantonio degli Uberti, based on an engraving by Francesco Rosselli, showing Borgo Pinti visible behind SS. Annunziata and the Ospedale degli Innocenti. c.1490–1510. Woodcut, 57.8 by 131.6 cm. (Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin– Preußischer Kulturbesitz; photograph Jörg P. Anders).

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20. Roman consul. First century AD, with later restorations. Marble. (Palazzo Gondi, Florence).

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21. Three female figures with four putti, attributed to Giuliano da Sangallo. c.1490. Pen and ink, with brown wash, heightened with lead white partly oxidised, on an orange-red ground on paper, 27.2 by 40.1 cm. (GDSU, Florence).

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22. Allegory of abundance or autumn, by Sandro Botticelli. c.1480–85. Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, heightened with white, over black and red chalk on an orange-red ground on paper, 31.7 by 25.2 cm. (British Museum, London).

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23. The rape of Europa, by Giovanni Francesco Rustici. c.1495. Glazed terracotta, 32.7 by 40.3 by 5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

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24. The rape of Europa, by the workshop of Filippino Lippi. c.1495. Black chalk with white heightening on paper, 14.5 by 15.6 cm. (GDSU, Florence).

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25. Acquaio, by Simone Mosca. 1527–34. Sandstone (pietra serena), height 495.3 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

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26. Europa, formerly attributed to Giuliano da Sangallo, now attributed to Raffaellino del Garbo. c.1495. Pen, iron gall ink and white lead on paper, 14 by 19.3 cm. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan).

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27. Killing of a bull, by Giuliano da Sangallo. c.1490–1513, Pen and ink on paper. (Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, Siena).

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27. Killing of a bull, by Giuliano da Sangallo. c.1490–1513, Pen and ink on paper. (Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, Siena).

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29. Studies of Ionic capitals, by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger. c.1530–45. Pen and brown ink on paper, 35.7 by 28.7 cm. (GDSU, Florence).

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3. Plan of a proposed Medici villa on via Laura, Florence, by Giuliano da Sangallo and Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, with Borgo Pinti running vertically on the right-hand side, inscribed ‘via dapintti’ and the Casa Sangallo to the right of ‘via’, c.1512–15. Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and ink washes on paper, 69.4 by 63.9 cm. (Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe delle Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, hereafter GDSU; inv. no.282 A).

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30. Study of an ancient vault in Rome, by Giuliano da Sangallo. c.1490–1513. Pen and ink on paper. (Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, Siena).

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31. Crucifix, by Francesco da Sangallo. c.1535–40. Wood, 184 by 178 cm. (S. Maria Nuova, Florence; photograph courtesy Gianluca Amato).

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32. Cosimo de’ Medici with Florentine artists, by Giorgio Vasari. 1550s. Fresco. (Palazzo della Signoria, Florence).

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33. Preparatory design for the cenotaph of John Hawkwood, by Paolo Uccello. c.1433–36. Silverpoint heightened in white on a prepared light green ground, squared with a stylus for transfer, on paper, 46.1 by 33.3 cm. (GDSU, Florence).

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34. Virgin with the Christ Child, by Francesco da Sangallo. c.1540–45. Terracotta, 84 by 98.5 by 20 cm. (Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; photograph Jörg P. Anders).

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35. Self-portrait, by Francesco da Sangallo. c.1570. Bronze, diameter 9.65 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).

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36. St John baptising, by Francesco da Sangallo. c.1535–38. Bronze, height 53 cm. (Frick Collection, New York).

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37. Design for the high altar of Florence Cathedral, by Francesco da Sangallo. c.1546. Pen and brown ink on paper, 22.5 by 27.4 cm. (GDSU, Florence).

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38. Virgin and Child with St Anne, by Francesco da Sangallo. c.1522–26. Marble. (Orsanmichele, Florence; Scala Archives).

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39. Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, by Francesco da Sangallo. c.1550–60. Marble, height 76 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).

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4. Detail of a ground plan of a house, possibly a design for the Casa Sangallo, attributed to Francesco da Sangallo. c.1510–40. Black chalk on paper. (GDSU, Florence).

Attributed works:

40. Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, by Francesco da Sangallo. c.1570. Bronze, diameter 9.29 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).

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41. Design for an equestrian monument to Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, by Francesco da Sangallo. c.1540–60. Pen and ink on paper, 24.8 by 24.4 cm. (GDSU, Florence).

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42. Astrology, by Giambologna. c.1575. Red wax, height 14.6 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

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5. Ground plan of the Casa Sangallo before 1576. (Alexander Röstel and Marta Castellini, based on a plan by Gianluca Belli, 2017).

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6. Palazzo Ximenes-Panciatichi, formerly the Casa Sangallo, Borgo Pinti, Florence.

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7. Detail of Nova pulcherrimae civitatis Florentiae topographia accuratissime delineata, by Stefano Buonsignori, showing the Sangallo property above the number 180. 1584. Etching. (Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Florence).

Attributed works:

8. Barrel vault in the Salone di Leone X, Villa Medici, Poggio a Caiano, designed by Giuliano da Sangallo. c.1510. (Bridgeman Images).

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9. Barrel vault in the Palazzo Ximenes-Panciatichi, Florence, designed by Giuliano da Sangallo. c.1490–1500. Stucco. (Photograph the author).

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the listing is known. The contents of the scrittoio can therefore only be reconstructed tentatively. Drawings, such as those in the Codex Geymüller, initiated by Antonio the Elder and expanded by Francesco well into the 1540s, were probably stored there, and these might have included works by other artists.202 The Codex Barberiniano (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), a folio volume of architectural drawings by Giuliano later annotated by Francesco, is first documented in the collection of Benedetto di Bartolomeo Gondi in 1609, just a few years after the sale of the Casa Sangallo.203 Like the existence of copies of the drawings in the Codex Barberiniano, this provenance suggests that architectural drawings by the Sangallos became coveted items for collectors and practitioners alike. It is known, for example, that Lorenzo Sirigatti, who published a book on perspective in 1596, owned a ‘framed perspectival drawing by Sangallo’.204 Francesco’s only securely attributed bronze sculpture is St John baptising, made for the holy water font of S. Maria delle Carceri, the centrally-planned church in Prato designed by his father (Fig.36).205 His second will indicates that he owned many more, mingled with ancient examples, but none has been securely identified.206 In addition to bronze sculptures, the scrittoio collection to Francesco, see Tomasso XXV: A Celebration of Notable Sales, London 2018, pp.58–59. 207 On Francesco’s medallic selfportraits, see Donetti, op. cit. (note 60), pp.103–21; see also Middeldorf, op. cit. (note 68), pp.124–28 and 138. 208 Donetti, op. cit. (note 60), p.106. For an example of the medal dated 1551 with Francesco on the obverse and his wife on the reverse, see Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, inv. no.6233. 209 I. Lavin: ‘Divine grace and the remedy of the imperfect: Michelangelo’s signature on the St Peter’s Pietà’, Artibus et historiae 34 (2013), pp.277–328. 210 For an overview, including a partial translation of the Martelli letters, see P. Attwood: Italian Medals c.1530–1600 in British Public Collections, London 2003, I, pp.330–34, II, pls.166–72; for a complete transcription, see Waldman, op. cit. (note 182), pp.103–04. See also Donetti, op. cit. (note 19), pp.89–90. 211 For references to books owned by artists of the Florentine Renaissance, see Carl, op. cit. (note 200); D. Covi: ‘Four new documents concerning Andrea del Verrocchio’, Art Bulletin 48 (1966), pp.97–103; A. Decaria: ‘Un copista di classici italiani e i libri di Luca della Robbia’, Rinascimento 47 (2007), pp.243–87; and Z. Sarnecka: ‘Luca della Robbia and his books: the Renaissance artist as devotee’, Artibus et historiae 37 (2016), pp.291–301. See also F. Ames- Lewis: The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist, New Haven and London 2000. 212 For the unlikely possibility that Giuliano and Francesco da Sangallo owned, annotated and illustrated a copy of the editio princeps of Cristoforo Landino’s commentary on Dante’s Divine Comedy in the Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Rome, see Degenhart, op. cit. (note 38), pp.101– 287; and Gamberini, op. cit. (note 185), pp.169–91, at p.174. For copies of Pliny’s Natural History available in fifteenth-century Florence, see R. Brennan: ‘Between Pliny and the trecento: Ghiberti on the history of painting’, in F. Jonietz, W.-D. Löhr and A. Nova, eds: Ghiberti Teorico: Natura, arte e coscienza storica nel Quattrocento, Milan 2019, pp.43–60, at p.43, note 12. 36. St John baptising, by Francesco da Sangallo. c.1535–38. Bronze, height 53 cm. (Frick Collection, New York).

Western art unattributed:

16. Five masters of the Florentine Renaissance. c.1490–1510. Oil on wood, 65.5 by 213 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

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Francesco da Sangallo: A Rediscovered Early Donatellesque 'Magdalen' and Two Wills from 1574 and 1576

12/1987 | 1017 | 129

Pages: 784-793

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Author:

Darr, Alan Phipps (Darr, Alan Phipps)

Author:

Roisman, Rona (Roisman, Rona)

Subjects

artists:

Sangallo, Francesco da

artists:

Donatello

dates:

1500-1599

places:

Italy / Florence

subjects:

Italian sculpture / Documents

subjects:

Wills

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Visual sources

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Attributions

subjects:

Mary Magdalene, Saint

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. and 2. Magdalen, Here Attributed to Francesco da Sangallo. 1519. Carved Wood with Traces of Gesso and Polychromy, 140 by 44 by 35 cm. (Church of S. Stefano al Ponte, Florence).

Attributed works:

10. Detail of Fig.4, Showing Profile. [St John the Baptist, Attributed to Francesco da Sangallo. c.1520. Marble, Height 170 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).]

Attributed works:

11. Magdalen, by Donatello. c.1455. Carved Wood with Gesso and Polychromy, Height 188 cm. (Museo dell' Opera del Duomo, Florence).

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3. and 4. St John the Baptist, Attributed to Francesco da Sangallo. c.1520. Marble, Height 170 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).

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5. Magdalen, Attributed to Francesco da Sangallo, before 1966 Flood Damage.

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6. Detail of Fig.1, Showing Front of Head. [Magdalen, Here Attributed to Francesco da Sangallo. 1519. Carved Wood with Traces of Gesso and Polychromy, 140 by 44 by 35 cm. (Church of S. Stefano al Ponte, Florence).]

Attributed works:

7. Detail of Fig.2, Showing Profile. [Magdalen, Here Attributed to Francesco da Sangallo. 1519. Carved Wood with Traces of Gesso and Polychromy, 140 by 44 by 35 cm. (Church of S. Stefano al Ponte, Florence).]

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8. Detail of Fig.9, Showing Profile of Head of St Anne. [ Virgin and Child with St Anne, by Francesco da Sangallo. 1522-26. Marble. (Or San Michele, Florence).]

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9. Virgin and Child with St Anne, by Francesco da Sangallo. 1522-26. Marble. (Or San Michele, Florence).

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The Operation of Vasari's Workshop and the Designs for S. Maria Novella and S. Croce

04/1973 | 841 | 115

Pages: 204-209

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Author:

Hall, Marcia B. (Hall, Marcia B.; Hall, Marcia)

Subjects

artists:

Vasari, Giorgio

artists:

Sangallo, Francesco da

buildings:

Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy

buildings:

Santa Croce, Florence, Italy

dates:

1550-1599

patrons:

Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574

places:

Italy / Florence

subjects:

Italian architecture / Churches

subjects:

Interior design

Illustrations

Attributed works:

3. Eighteenth-Century Plan of S. Maria Novella Showing Vasari's Remodelling. (Demolished in the Nineteenth Century).

Attributed works:

4. Eighteenth-Century Section of S. Maria Novella Showing Vasari's now Demolished Remodelling.

Attributed works:

5. Vasari's Design for Altar Tabernacles in S. Maria Novella, Copied by Giorgio Vasari il Giovane. (Gabinetto dei Disegni, Galleria Degli Uffizi, 4682A.)

Attributed works:

6. Altar Tabernacle Here Identified as Designed by Francesco da San Gallo. (S. Croce, Florence.)

Western art unattributed:

2. S. Maria Novella, Florence Today, after Nineteenth-Century Remodelling.

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